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Covers the formation of the Hawaiian islands; the arrival of plants, animals, and the first people; and the way of life of the ancient Hawaiians.
Because Pidgin, like other languages, is constantly evolving, Da Pidgin Guerrilla asked people in Hawai'i and beyond to contribute their favorite Pidgin words, with definitions, sentences, and origins. The result is this illustrated collection, which also reveals where (and when) contributors wen grad.
Hawaiian history from pre-contact Hawaii through the first arrival of Western contact. It covers the history of the Hawaiian archipelago from multiple perspectives; geographically, scientifically, historically, and through mythology and legend. Includes Hawaiian language glossary and an index.
This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest English encounters with the Powhatan at the falls of the James River through slavery, the Civil War, and the long reckoning that followed. And while the region's deathways and burial practices have developed in surprising directions over these centuries, one ele...
Ancient Hawaiian culture for young learners. Includes illustrations, pronunciation guide, bibliography, charts, tables, and appendix. RL4
Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized Indian tribes and bands lost their sovereignty after the Eisenhower Administration enacted a policy known as termination, which was carefully designed to end the federal-Indian relationship and to dissolve Indian identity. Most tribes and bands fought this policy; the Colville Confederated Tribes of north-central Washington State offer a rare example of a tribe who pursued termination. Some Colville tribal members who favored terminati...
How to Build a Monument / Paul M. Farber -- Memorializing Philadelphia as a Place of Crisis and Boundless Hope / Ken Lum -- Public Practice / Jane Golden -- Tania Bruguera, Monument to New Immigrants -- Mel Chin, Two Me -- Kara Crombie, Sample Philly -- The Art of the Proposal: Reading the Monument Lab Open Data Set / Laurie Allen.
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